To Voronezh Adjutant Antonov. Copy to Rostov Ordzhonikidze.
Bryansk, to the Military Soviet [copy to Sovdepu].
May 5, 1918

On the fourth of May of this year, a treaty was concluded on the Kursk Front between the German-Ukrainian and Russian sides [an armistice] concerning the cessation of military operations. Text of the treaty: "Korenevo, May 4th, 1918. Negotiations for the establishment of a demarcation line between the German-Ukrainian forces, on the one hand, and the forces of the Federative Russian Republic on the other hand. Present: 1) Major von Rosenberg Lppinsky, commander of the 482nd Infantry Regiment and the Sudzha-Rylsk district, 2) Lieutenant of the Reserve Kenig of the 10th Uhlan Regiment, orderly, 3) Sub-lieutenant Distel, regimental adjutant. On the Russian side: 1) Mr. Zilberman, chief of staff of the forces of the Kursk district, 2) Pyotr Aleksandrovich Zaitsev, secretary of the Russian peace delegation, 3) Nikolai Vishnevsky, military-political commissar of the Kursk district. 1) A neutral zone has been established with a width of 10 kilometers, which neither side shall cross. On the German side, this zone runs along the line Sudzha—Lyubimovka—Korenevo and the railway Korenevo—Rylsk. On the Russian side along the line Mazepovka—Stepanovka—Nizhnyaya Grunia and the intersection of the railway Korenevo—Lgov and the road Aleksandrova—Skrylevka—Kremyanoye—Malaya Loknya—Cherkaskaya—Porechnya—Kurochka—Shinovka—Pushkarskoe—Russian Konopelka. 2) No guard or reconnaissance patrols from either side shall cross the aforesaid zone. 3) Requisition of food supplies in the neutral zone is forbidden to each of the sides, as well as to private persons. 4) Both sides shall not be responsible for the crossing of the designated boundaries by private persons. 5) The boundaries of the zone are inaccessible to aviators as well. 6) From the moment of the signing of this treaty, both sides guarantee that major combat operations shall not be undertaken. 7) In view of the difficulty of notifying the Russian combat units of this treaty, it shall come into full force only from four o'clock in the afternoon of May 5th, new style, 1918. 8) The question of the conditions for the resumption of combat operations will be decided in Konotop, where negotiations will continue. 9) Four copies of this treaty shall be made in Russian and German, and each side shall receive 2 Russian and German copies of the treaty. Besides, the German representatives receive the Russian original, and the Russians receive the German one. 10) The purpose of this treaty is the conclusion of an armistice in view of peace negotiations. This treaty has been read to all representatives in their native language and has been accepted and signed by them."

In informing you of this, we hereby order you to immediately undertake the appropriate steps for the conclusion with the German-Ukrainian command of an analogous treaty on your Front, and you must notify the Council of People's Commissars in Moscow and the Russian peace delegation in Kursk in good time regarding this.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.
Chairman of the Peace Delegation I. Stalin.